Why did Preston Brooks attack Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor?

A. Sumner had insulted Brooks’s elderly uncle in a vitriolic speech against proslavery advocates.

B. Brooks mistakenly believed that Sumner had spread a malicious rumor about his wife.

C. Sumner had suggested that abolitionists such as Brooks were thieves and hypocrites.

the conditions that made the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks by the muslin turks were the sack of constantinople by western crusaders, the conquests of the sultanate of rum, presence of rival kingdoms and finally the set up of fiefdoms at the empire which were owned by the ghazis (turkish warriors).

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

b. ensure mutual protection from communism.

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